Wildstar has been out for about a month now. Rather than take a break and recover from the massive effort of launching an MMO, Carbine Studios is forging ahead and bringing even more content to players in the form of the Strain Ultradrop. We’ve been talking about it for a while now, and now Game Design Producer Stephan Frost has given us a new trailer that details the ways in which various types of players can enjoy the pox infested landscape of the Strain. Enjoy!

Arma 3 might be out now, but that doesn’t mean the last game in the series has been left out in the cold, oh no. Quite the opposite in fact.

Over the last few months a lot of game developers have scrambled to find new locations for the multiplayer servers of their games after the closure of the Gamespy service, with some games being over a decade old but much-loved classics. Now Arma 2 has been included in that list of saved games, with developers Bohemia Interactive having changed their multiplayer functions to work with Steam’s servers and relaunched the multiplayer through a new patch to the game which also includes tweaks and bug fixes.

The patch is only being released for the Steam version of the game, but now all CD keys work on Steam, including those that came with the retail version of the game so the patch will be available to everyone who is willing to move their files over to Valve’s care and storage.

“It was.. of paramount importance to offer an alternative for the passionate Operation Arrowhead players who have supported our game and our company for so many years,” the developer said.

Seems that even before Halo 5 gets released, 343 Studios are already planning for the next game in the series. They’re advertising for a ‘senior producer’ for a new game, as well as for a senior concept artist to “breathe a fresh vision into a new Halo experience”.

The listing doesn’t confirm much and so little is known of the game other than it being another in the long-running Halo franchise, but rumours are that it will be a spin-off separate from the afore-mentioned Halo 5 or The Master Chief Collection which is also on its way.

If it is a spin-off it wouldn’t be the first Halo spin-off to have emerged. Past titles have included Halo ODST and the popular Halo Reach as well as RTS Halo Wars and twin-stick shooter Spartan Assault.

Gamers of the 90s especially will remember the Oddworld games, especially the first two which followed the unlikely hero Abe. Gory, rude and violent as well as dealing with questions of commercialism and the power of wealth vs nature and spiritualism, the Oddworld games were not exactly child-friendly. You might also remember that the Abe games were the first in an installment of a group of planned games called the ‘Oddworld Quintology’, yet as of 2014, we’ve only seen the first two parts (Abe and Munch). Now creator Lorne Lanning has released a few more details about the third installment called Squeek’s Oddysee.

The protagonist of the game, Squeek, would have been a brand-new half-animal, half-robot creature who had had some of his body parts replaced by machinery by researchers much in the same vein as how both Abe and Munch were previously mistreated by corporate interests before going on their own journeys.

“The idea was that the Vykkers, who were animal researchers that would kill a million bunnies just to make a better fabric softener, had been making robotic life support devices because so they could repossess people’s body parts like how you’d get evicted. They’d stick what was left of you in this clunky robotic form and tossed you out on the street.”

Squeek’s Oddysee was originally thought to be coming shortly after the release of Munch’s Oddysee onto the Xbox in 2001, but has been hanging in uncertainty for years after interest levels in the game were not supposedly as high as had been anticipated. Instead other games were released and a remastered version of Abe’s Oddysee called “New n Tasty” is due to be released soon on the PS4.

As a gamer who enjoyed both Abe games and Munch’s Oddysee during her teenage years (frustrating as it could be sometimes, finding the secret parts of a level was just so satisfying) I personally would love to see the third installment of the Quintology released soon, and I’m not just saying that because Squeek is for all purposes technically a cyborg too. I genuinely enjoyed my time playing previous games in the Quintology. Here’s hoping that the game will actually see release for all long-time Oddworld fans to enjoy.

Hearthstone’s singleplayer adventure expansion, Curse of Naxxramas, is being targeted for a July release a post on the Blizzard forums has confirmed.

In the post the Blizzard Community Manager said that they are hoping to get the expansion out during the month of July, but said that there was still a lot of bug-testing and implementing to get done before they could release it. He also said that the pricing information was to be released on the first day of that month.

A Hearthstone Adventure, Curse of Naxxramas, is to be a single-player campaign that adds an Adventure mode to the free-to-play card game, set within its own gameboard. It is set in the ancient necropolis Naxxramas, the base of operations for the powerful lich Kel’Thuzad and his plague-bearing undead host. It will be rolled out over 5 weeks, with the first part The Arachnid Quarter being free for all Hearthstone players while the other four will be purchasable with either in-game gold or real money for those wanting to continue through.

It will be released at the same time on PC, Mac and iPad.